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Three senior Federal Court judges will hear arguments Monday and Tuesday in a closely-watched appeal of a ruling that stayed two of three competing shareholder class actions against GetSwift as an abuse of process, and the impact of the Full Court's ruling will be felt for a long time to come. Here are five major issues the court will be wrestling with over the next two days.
Law firm Squire Patton Boggs is again on the losing end of a ruling by the judge presiding over a shareholder class action against GetSwift, a case now better known for infighting among lawyers than for the allegations levelled against the tech startup.
Aristocrat Technologies is pushing on with its bid for four innovation gaming patents, after a delegate for IP Australia revoked the patents because they amounted to nothing more than 'games and game rules'.
A judge has dismissed a bid by Australian auto electronics company Directed OE for an injunction stopping South Korean rival Hanhwa from supplying a new audio visual unit to truck company Izuzu it claims was developed using confidential information.
The ACCC is working on a court enforceable undertaking with Apple's Australian unit after it reached a $9 million settlement with Apple Inc. over allegations the company's iPhone and iPad repair policies violated the Australian Consumer Law, a Federal Court judge said Wednesday.
Google has been fined a record $6.8 billion by the European Union's antitrust watchdog for imposing restrictions on its Android operating system to maintain its search engine dominance.
In a judgment signing off on Apple's $9 million settlement with the ACCC over the tech giant's repair policies, a Federal Court judge has said the case is a "paradigm example" of the problem with how penalties are assessed under the Australian Consumer Law.
An invention that simply puts "a business method or scheme into a computer" is not patentable, the Commissioner of Patents told a court Wednesday on the first day of a highly anticipated trial over a rejected software patent application by marketing tech startup Rokt.
Industrial filter manufacturer Vokes has lost its fight to correct a 17-year-old error that removed it as the registered owner of six trade marks, with the Full Federal Court ruling Monday that the Registrar did not have the power to fix the mistake of her own initiative.
The US securities regulator is reportedly looking into Facebook's disclosures to investors about the harvesting of user data by political research firm Cambridge Analytica, as the company faces the threat of a privacy class action in Australia over the data debacle.